JFM Editorial does the heavy lifting for you -- the author -- as you prepare your manuscript for delivery to your publisher or literary agent. With Jon Malysiak, you will work with a publishing industry veteran with nearly 20 years' experience in development, copyediting, and acquisitions.

Do you have a complete manuscript draft that needs hands-on editorial development to help you make your narrative sing? JFM Editorial can make that happen.

Do you have an already developed manuscript that needs a full or partial copyedit before you deliver it to your publisher? JFM Editorial can do that too.

And finally, are you just looking for an industry expert with experience in evaluating a manuscript -- either fiction or non-fiction -- to help you determine the best course of action for it and for you as an author? JFM Editorial is here for that as well.

Also, JFM Editorial partners with publishers looking to outsource their acquisitions rather than rely on an in-house acquisitions team.

Having worked with authors -- both new and experienced -- over many years in a wide range of genres, Jon Malysiak knows first-hand how stressful (but ultimately, how rewarding) manuscript preparation can be. If it's your dream to become a published author, JFM Editorial can help you along that journey.

BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS

Supreme Ambitions: A Novel by David Lat
The Inside Counsel Revolution by Ben Heineman
Stolen Legacy by Dina Gold
BigLaw: A Novel by Lindsey Cameron
The Mother Court by James Zirin
The Crime of Complicity by Amos Guiora
John Lennon vs. The USA by Leon Wildes

PREVIOUS PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE

Jon Malysiak started his publishing career in the mid-1990s working as a bookseller at the Barnes & Noble superstore on 82nd and Broadway in NYC while studying theater at the esteemed American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). A life upon the stage turned out not to be in the cards, but he soon found himself -- after a move back to his hometown of Chicago -- as an Acquisitions Coordinator at IDG Books, then the publishers of the ...For Dummies series. While at IDG, Jon worked his way up to the position of Associate Acquisitions Editor, acquiring Dummies books in the categories of Personal Finance, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship.

He then went over to Sourcebooks, Inc., where he acquired and developed books for their multimedia MediaFusion imprint, including the acclaimed Spoken Word Revolution and The Classical Music Experience by Julius H. Jacobson with a CD narrated by Tony Award-winning actor Kevin Kline. After a couple years, Jon jumped ship for Dearborn Trade Publishing (Kaplan) where he acquired books in the categories of business management and small business.

In 2005, Jon left Dearborn to co-found a boutique literary agency in Chicago. Over the next several years, Jon represented authors in a range of non-fiction categories and successfully sold projects to such esteemed houses as Rodale, Financial Times Press, and St. Martin's Press, among others.

In 2012, Jon closed the agency and joined the team at ABA Publishing, the book publishing division of the American Bar Association, where he helped establish and then managed Ankerwycke Books, the ABA's first-ever trade imprint. Among the projects Jon acquired and developed for Ankerwycke were: The Inside Counsel Revolution by General Electric's renowned former head of inside counsel, Ben Heineman; Supreme Ambitions, the debut novel by David Lat, founder of the influential legal blog, Above the Law; BigLaw, the debut novel by former BigLaw attorney Lindsey Cameron; Stolen Legacy by former BBC investigative journalist Dina Gold; and John Lennon vs. the USA by the esteemed immigration lawyer Leon Wildes, who represented John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their 1972 deportation case.